this is not an upgrade warning, as you will get those messages if you own a device with r8169, but possibly dont have the firmware installed. moving to hardware.

greetz
devil

hopimet

Post subject: RE: 2.6.36-1.slh.3 warning Posted: 06.12.2010, 21:39

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Same problem for me and it persists with the 3.6.36-1.slh.4. However, this warning was absent with the previous upgrades. Has anyone an explanation ?

devil

Post subject: RE: 2.6.36-1.slh.3 warning Posted: 06.12.2010, 21:52

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i thought i gave one above.
and as long as your hardware works, it is not a problem.

greetz
devil

DonKult

Post subject: RE: 2.6.36-1.slh.3 warning Posted: 06.12.2010, 23:03

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bigger kernel updates tend to give me a similar message about b43 firmware for me as i use the opensource openfwwf one (which doesn't official support my card revision) and not the closed source one from broadcom…

As devil already said: If everything works for you, just ignore it. The message is target at user for which it doesn't work - but how should the kernel check if it will work after boot? Right, it can't, so better save than sorry…

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A new kernel may contain new driver modules
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New hardware support may require new firmware blobs
New firmware blobs may not be packaged in sync with new kernel (for whatever reason)